Patch 5.3 - Blood in the Snow Scenario Intro
Some of the new scenarios in Patch 5.3 will have an intro by Lorewalker Cho, starting with Blood in the Snow. Unfortunately the new scenarios are still not open for testing, so you cannot progress further than this one yet.

Topic
The topic for this Ask the Devs is, “PvP changes on the PTR”.
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Small Client Patches

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

As you may have noticed there have been a few small patches being downloaded and installed by the World of Warcraft launcher. These are part of a new bit of tech we’ve been testing that allows us to quickly release small client-side patches without needing to build and release a large scale patch. These allow us to now make client-side changes quickly and easily, very similar to the server-side hotfixes we’ve become used to for all these years. We treat them the same as server-side hotfixes, so they’ll be noted in the usual hotfix blog as it’s updated.

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

UI / AddonsHey Greg! Any chance you guys are going to break Feat of Strengths into subcategories? I currently have 55 and It overwhelms.
Gratz! We think our achievement UI needs some work, including filtering. (Source)

need to make ui able to see absorbs from ss,da, & pws to let me know when they are capped to make sure I dont overuse.
You can see absorbs in 5.2. You can't see their caps because we couldn't solve that to our liking but mods might. (Source)

Yo GC, would love to see a in game tabard u.i similar to titles. Drop down menu > tabard > check to equip or display none.
Agree. We just have to solve a few that have a clicky effect like teleports. (Source)

If you can redesign WoW from scratch, do you still think it's good to support custom addons?
Yes, though we might have aimed more for supporting more customization and less automation. (Source)

Guild Wars 2 Aprils Fools
The team went all out with an 8 bit style 3D world full of jumping puzzles and adventure! You can see GW2Guru's writeup here for more details, or watch the video below.

Blizz 0:1 Anet when it comes to Aprils fools. Poor excuse on Blizz side... what real content? Where is it?

I think that still leaves Blizz rather far out in front when it comes to ''Quality of game''. Are you really going to ballache that we didn't get another fake blog about something likely to only be half funny at best?

Blizz 0:1 Anet when it comes to Aprils fools. Poor excuse on Blizz side... what real content? Where is it?

Well, Blizzard HAS done 10 years of April fools jokes, so....

yeah...

"Do not look down, my friend. Even in the darkest of times, there is always hope... Hope for a better day, hope for a new dawn... Or just hope for a good breakfast. You start small, then see what you can get." ~ Covetous Shen

Blizz 0:1 Anet when it comes to Aprils fools. Poor excuse on Blizz side... what real content? Where is it?

Why? You believe that jokes don't require additional work? Plenty of real content, if you haven't noticed 5.2 barely came out and 5.3 is already on the PTR and 5.4 will surely follow suite soon enough. I would much rather have Blizzard working on making good on that promise for faster patches than some waste of time jokes just so a couple of people could get their jollies. Plenty of other websites and developers had their 'jokes' some more disruptive than others, go look those up if you care about jokes that much.

Also... vanity cloak? Really? Cloaks look goofy on half the races and as far as that one goes, its nothing special. Half the people don't have cloaks turned on, and even if they did, most people wouldn't recognize the look of the cloak because, it's a cloak and isn't that the whole point of the 'vanity' items. Recognition.

Blizz 0:1 Anet when it comes to Aprils fools. Poor excuse on Blizz side... what real content? Where is it?

trolololololol, not enough content currently? not enough content coming? and then rather would like to have them doing useless april fool jokes, some are just here for trolling or are just plain braindead.

Why? You believe that jokes don't require additional work? Plenty of real content, if you haven't noticed 5.2 barely came out and 5.3 is already on the PTR and 5.4 will surely follow suite soon enough. I would much rather have Blizzard working on making good on that promise for faster patches than some waste of time jokes just so a couple of people could get their jollies. Plenty of other websites and developers had their 'jokes' some more disruptive than others, go look those up if you care about jokes that much.

Also... vanity cloak? Really? Cloaks look goofy on half the races and as far as that one goes, its nothing special. Half the people don't have cloaks turned on, and even if they did, most people wouldn't recognize the look of the cloak because, it's a cloak and isn't that the whole point of the 'vanity' items. Recognition.

You dont need more than 5 min too make 1. 3 years ago i made 1 2 years ago i made 2 , last year i made 1 and this year i made 3. (+2 if you count other mmo games)